A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

A deeply beautiful 15th-century stepwell with a tragic story.

The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.